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bonzobanana on 16 December 2015
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sc94597 said:
FromDK said:
  sc94597 said:

FromDK said:
Your will.. this is only early beta.. for people with high specs pc's..  And even when emulators can run most WiiU games (almost) as good WiiU itself.. there still is no gamepad.

Nintendo do sell them (in japan) and emulators will eventuly support them.. but still.. much more easy and "full experinces" to just buy a WiiU
Why does it seem unlikely that they will get the game pad working? People with Wii U's can already connect their game pads to PC for basic controls.  it would then just be a matter of streaming the data over wifi, like the Wii u does.

"and emulators will eventuly support them" We agree.. :)

But you do also agree that we are in the (very) early stages of WiiU emulation.. ?

A lot of the hard work has been done. Having a fully running game is about 50% there in my opinion (and they are almost there.) Give it 2-3 years and it will probably be as featured as Dolphin circa 2013, and give it another few years and it would run well on the common gaming PC. Considering the PS3 and 360 emulators are so much further behind, it is very impressive. 

 

3 weak cpu cores, slow memory bandwidth and a gpu marginally ahead of ps3 and 360 probably means the wii u is far easier to emulate. So while the wii u needs powerpc emulation on a x86 processor its far less demanding than the 360 and much, much easier than ps3 with its cell processor. gpu performance may have higher demands but only marginally. The wii u was always very low cost, low performance hardware. I think recent games like Xenoblade X really have to develop at a low level to get that sort of performance and even then there is horrible compromises including missing collision detection etc.

Most of the early wii u games performed at a sub par level compared to ps3 and 360 with missing features, inferior graphics and lower frame rates.  Clearly there is some advantages in the graphics hardware though with a complete absense of screen tear for most games.